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Electrical properties of sol-gel derived films containing composites of glass-ceramics and nanocrystalline silver

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Sol-gel-derived films containing BaTiO3 crystallites have been grown on suitable substrates using a precursor composition in the system Li2O-BaO-TiO2. Silver particles of diameters in the range 4.9 to 16.2 nm have been synthesized within these films by ion exchange and reduction technique. Electrical resistivities are found to vary from ∼102 to 105 ohm-cm, depending on the silver particle diameter. A low activation energy, approximately a few millielectron volts, is found to characterize the electrical properties of most of the samples. A quantum size effect is invoked to explain the results.

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    T. K. Kundu & D. Chakravorty

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Kundu, T.K., Chakravorty, D. Electrical properties of sol-gel derived films containing composites of glass-ceramics and nanocrystalline silver. Journal of Materials Research 11, 200–203 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.1996.0024

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